Bee Bee Its Hard to always be strong! I dont know how people do it!
juhnayrae Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound rude there (about af coiming) I didn't understand. I'm not very educated on any treatments or anything. This month will really be the first time I'm going to the dr for anything fertility related and its still my obgyn. I'm nervous we will need more then just time and naturally. Right now were saving for our wedding and in the process of buying a house, so it would have to wait until after the wedding, using our wedding gifts which in a way would be a beautiful gift from our friends and family. But thats just me being doubtful.
Not to be nosey (and dont answer if you dont want) but does anyone feel comfortable sharing how much any of their medicine/ procedure are? Also what each one is for and how it works? I really have no idea.
I wasn't offended at all, I was just answering your question. Sorry if I sounded annoyed! I really don't know how much they cost, when we were ttc #1 most of it was covered by insurance which was back in 2012, so I don't remember the exact costs. The only thing we had to pay for last time was the actual IUI (which was like $250 or something) and our semen analysis which was somewhere around $100. Clomid and Femara are really cheap, so is Provera. The trigger shot was definitely more expensive, somewhere around $80 or something. Our insurance covered all of the ultrasounds, blood work, and office visits.
Now, we're paying for everything out of pocket because of insurance changes. Since we just started doing this again and we're with a new doctor, we'll see what happens. I think the ultrasounds are $150, not sure about everything else yet.
I was REALLY nervous when our OBGYN sent us to the RE. I have thin PCOS, but when we got my husband's semen analysis back and he had low count/motility, he didn't really give us a choice. I was
dreading our first meeting, I thought for sure they would be all doom and gloom, but our RE was incredible. It obviously worked out too because we got pregnant after our first month of seeing him. I would say just keep trying and doing whatever you can, but if you have to see a RE eventually don't feel too bad.
Js I totally get that - I can see it becoming "baby making sex" for us too down the road, I think just since its our first month and DH is SO happy to not be using condoms anymore it's still got that "new" thrill! I had to go off the pill about a year ago due to an aura migraine with aphasia (all the symptoms of a stroke), so he's been begrudgingly using condoms ever since. We're normally pretty lazy at doing the deed and are fine with that, so I'm sure we'll go through phases throughout this journey of TTC!
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We are too! Totally lazy about BDing sometimes haha. It's not that we don't enjoy BDing, but after we've both had long days and after getting our DD to bed, all we want to do is lay on the couch haha. We don't want to make it another thing "to do".
DH was pumped too when we started ttc and he could stop using condoms!
I wish we could do it everyday! (would decrease my wonders of if we missed the right time when i get bfn and of course I want to do it) but we tend to feel that if we try everyday by o time we just dont enjoy it as much anymore and who wants for it to feel forced and not as enjoyable. Then we barley do it 3 times a week during tww if we do it too much before. And thats when we realized we were starting to get in a pattern of "baby making sex" every month and we dont want it to be just for that purpose for the sake of our relationship. Every other day covers our bases for fertile times in case somehow O doesn't happen when I think and then during the fertile window if we do it a few days in a row its more fun. But thats just us personally. and we've been doing it for 8 months now.
Every other day is great for timing, I wouldnt worry about it too much
Sperm can live for 3-5 days so if you BD every other day then you pretty much cover all possibilities.
^^Yes! What she said! Every other should be plenty
s I get, I just go into every month TTC expecting a 
Back when we were ttc before using IUI we would BD every other night until I ovulated and then we would BD 2-3 nights in a row. BDing every night is just tiring to us and is a chore, even every other night is tough for me honestly. 
Fx'd for all of us!
